Imagination, Community, and Revolution
The Fallout franchise has always been associated with the American Cold War imagination. But what if we took up the opposite perspective?
Read More Class War Never Changes: How to write a Chinese Fallout settingInspired by various post-apocalyptic works, I try to see if late capitalist culture can look beyond itself. The answer may surprise you!
Read More The Last of Them, the First of Us: End-Stage Capitalism and the Unimaginable BeyondBased on the communist magic of Disco Elysium, I work out a Daoist philosophy of revolutionary transformation.
Read More Borrowed Thoughts: The Dao of Infra-Materialism and the De of RevolutionThe Open World video game has not lived up to its potential. To remedy this, I try to establish a new design philosophy founded in radical social theory.
Read More Worlds Beyond Spaces: The Communalist Model of Game DesignIn this piece, I explain the history of Buddhist thought by placing it within the metaphor of an MMO video game. Educational hilarity ensues.
Read More Buddhism for Gamers: A Ridiculous Analogy in Seven StagesA short essay about video tales, a fascinating (if yet ephemeral) undercurrent in the broad stream of gaming.
Read More Tell, Don’t Game: A Medium ManifestoA constructive look into a niche gaming community, and the alternate histories it produces.
Read More Wishful Wargames: The Weird World of HOI4 Alternate History ModsAn ongoing series where I rework popular fictions from a left-wing perspective. Episode One: Red Faction Guerrilla.
Read More The People’s Fiction, Episode One: Red Faction Guerrilla
The inner Moon 